Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hampshire's Novelist Grace (Return to Peyton Place) Metalious blew into Manhattan, called a press conference, was soon berating Hollywood Producer Jerry Wald for more or less tricking her into writing her latest exposé of small-town wickedness. In agreement with most critics, Grace growled: "This isn't a novel; it's a Hollywood treatment." Added she: "It was never intended to be anything else. It was a foul, rotten trick. They made a hell of a lot on Peyton Place, and they wanted to ride the gravy train...
...result falls somewhere between Who's Who and Confidential. In a foreword Amory boasts that no one listed in the register "paid to get in-or, for that matter, to get out." The listing on Novelist Truman Capote says that he has "a foliage of blond and somehow defensive bangs." Marie ("The Body") McDonald is described as "one of the most remarkable wives in the country-she has had seven marriages but only three actual husbands." The entry on Charles Van Doren was hastily updated to include a reference to his October shame: "Suspended by NBC . . . pending the outcome...
...difficulty in establishing a literary school is that someone is always cutting class. Novelist Nathalie Sarraute, dean of women of the French school known as the New Realist, inveighs against psychological novels, yet psychologizes in her own works. Her cofounder, Novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet, is an object worshiper who would rather describe a love seat than a love scene; yet this is not consistently reflected in the novels of his disciples. They do have some common characteristics, notably a way of writing in flat tones of a world that is bleak arid joyless, where people lead lives hollow of meaning...
Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Novelist-Playwright Gore Vidal's TV play about his grandfather, Thomas Gore of Oklahoma, who, though blind, served in the U.S. Senate (1907-21, 1931-37). Color...
...foot in the graveyard. He takes a paternal interest in some 900 well-paid employees and issues periodic denunciations of other cemeteries, which, as a Forest Lawn Art Guide once put it, "cry out men's utter hopelessness in the face of death." To this statement Novelist Waugh somewhat tartly replied that "by far the commonest feature of other graveyards is still the Cross, a symbol in which previous generations have found more Life and Hope than in the most elaborately watered evergreen shrub...